Telegram dies, takes an era along with it What hath God wrought — the first message Samuel F B Morse sent from Washington to Baltimore way back in May 24, 1844 — is perhaps what telegram aficionados have been wondering ever since they heard that the system of communication will officially be euthanised in India in three weeks from now. Morse was the one who invented the system of sending text messages over long distances by assigning each alphabet a unique sequence of dots and dashes. Before email and the subsequent test messages revolutionised communication Read More: newindianexpress/cities/chennai/Telegram-dies-takes-an-era-along-with-it/2013/06/24/article1649844.ece
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:30:00 +0000
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